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17. προσεκύνησαν. See note, ch. Mat 20:20. It is characteristic of St Matthew’s Gospel that this word, which indicates the homage and prostration before a king, should occur twelve times, whereas it is found twice only in each of the other Synoptics.
οἱ δέ. Probably not some of the Apostles, but some of the five hundred who had not previously seen the Lord.
For οἱ δὲ when οἱ μὲν is omitted in the first clause see note, ch. Mat 26:67. Il. XI. 536, ἀφʼ ἱππείων ὁπλέων ῥαθάμιγγες ἒβαλλον, | αἱ δʼ ἀπʼ ἐπισσώτρων (Winer, p. 131, and Riddell on Plato, Apol. Soc., p. 18, note 3, and Dig. 241).
ἐδίστασαν. The same word is used of St Peter’s doubt, ch. Mat 14:31, and in these passages only in N.T.; there too the doubt is followed by adoration, 28:33.